Clinical Staff Pharmacist
About The Position
UW Health Care Direct, an affiliate of UW Health, provides community-based home health services, including home infusion pharmacy services across Wisconsin and select surrounding areas of Minnesota and Illinois. The Clinical Staff Pharmacist performs clinical and distributive pharmacy activities and related services to support safe and effective home infusion therapies. The pharmacist coordinates infusion care for new and current patients in collaboration with prescribers, health system staff, Care Direct team members, and operations. The role includes reviewing prescriptions, assessing medication therapy and patient information, making recommendations to prescribers, consulting with patients, and dispensing medications, supplies, and equipment. The pharmacist also maintains compliant pharmacy records and timely documentation in the electronic health record, supports quality and safety initiatives, and completes required education and competency activities. This is a 100% FTE position with a day-shift schedule of four 10-hour days, Monday through Friday, with a varying day off each week. Participation in weeknight, weekend, and holiday on-call coverage is required. After the training period, the position is hybrid, with at least 50% on-site work in Middleton, Wisconsin.
Requirements
- Wisconsin professional pharmacist licensure.
- Bachelor’s degree in Pharmacy or PharmD.
- Board certification in nutrition support required within the first year of employment.
- Participation in weeknight and weekend on-call shifts is required.
- CPR certification is required for individuals who are pharmacist vaccinators.
Nice To Haves
- Completion of a PGY-1 hospital residency, or at least two years of recent acute-care experience, or one year of recent home infusion therapy experience.
- Experience and strong knowledge of intravenous admixture services and intravenous drug therapy.
Responsibilities
- Coordinate and facilitate infusion care for new and current patients in collaboration with prescribers, health system staff, Care Direct team members, and operations.
- Apply the pharmacists’ patient care process to provide safe and effective drug therapy.
- Provide clinical and legal review of new patient prescriptions and maintain pharmacy records in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.
- Collect and assess relevant information to develop patient-focused plans, including medication appropriateness, medication reconciliation, and monitoring parameters based on laboratory and clinical data.
- Recommend plan alterations to prescribers when appropriate to improve drug therapy outcomes.
- Provide medication consultations to patients and dispense medications, supplies, and equipment in accordance with applicable laws and standards of pharmacy and sterile compounding practice.
- Check medications, supplies, and equipment before dispensing them from the pharmacy.
- Complete thorough and timely patient notes and charting in the organization’s electronic health record.
- Manage patient care as delegated by a physician through written delegation agreements.
- Maintain clinical skills and pharmacotherapy knowledge through literature review and attendance at in-services, seminars, or conferences.
- Complete initial and ongoing organizational and department education, training, and competency requirements.
- Understand, demonstrate, and follow organizational infection-control guidelines.
- Focus on improving processes and champion efficiency in daily work.
- Promote a culture of safety, promptly report errors or near misses through the organization’s occurrence reporting system, and participate in developing improved safety processes as appropriate.
- Participate in required weeknight, weekend, and holiday on-call coverage.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Benefits
- Health, dental, and vision coverage with competitive premiums.
- 401(k) matching: 100% match on the first 3% contributed and 50% match on the next 2%.
- Employee Assistance Program.
- Generous paid time off.
- Flexible Spending Account.
- Dependent care benefit.
- Employer-paid short-term disability.
- Employer-paid long-term disability.
- Employer-paid basic life insurance and AD&D.
- Voluntary life insurance.
- Benefits take effect on the first day of the month following hire; 401(k) eligibility begins one month after eligibility for the other benefits.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
